Toronto's Stephen Gogolev finishes 4th at Skate Canada International

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Okay, let's take a look as Steven is heading towards Centre Ice.
And last year, he was eighth in this event.
But as we said earlier, he nearly finished on top
of the podium at the World Championships in March.
Expectations a lot higher, though, here in Kelowna.
For whatever reason, Steven had the skate he had.
Sits in last place and 19 points back up third place.
Let's see what he's got for us now.
Skating to Moulin Rouge.
He'll start with that incredibly difficult quad lutz jump.
You don't see it very often in competition.
Back on the horse.
Very strange.
I'm starting to speak now.
I say he wanders
Clear your mind.
Knees flex.
Change your timing.
Oh, good work in the air.
Quad lutz making it look so easy.
Don't think to yourself, where was that yesterday?
Where was that in the short?
Just keep moving forwards.
Same jump, only the triple version.
More
like
it.
The Canadian champion shows us just how good he can be.
Redemption for Steven Gogol.
Well done.
The crowd loves this.
Scores on the other side of the break.
Well, a better reaction from the coaches
and Don Stevens' face after that free skate.
What did you think?
Lee Barkel should be happy
because this is always a tough day to skate at home.
All the expectations on you,
and you've got to come back and prove yourself again.
I think he did a great job.
He stuck with it.
The long triple flip, triple axel Euler,
double Salchow, as it turned out.
You know, he really...
He fought for everything.
He even fought for the choreography.
This is a much more challenging choreography style
than he's ever used to.
And I think he's doing a good job of it.
It needs to be frantic, passionate.
And it isn't.
But give it time.
But Steven, you've got to take the challenge that's
been thrown to you with this music.
And doing that after the skate he had yesterday
is so commendable.
I agree.
Good job.
I love the fight.
There you see his score.
165.997.
